Shade it black
Subtitle: death and after in Iraq
By: Jess Goodell with John Hearn
Contributors: Hearn, John E.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781612000015; 9781612000121
Subjects: Repatriation of war dead; Women marines; United States; American Personal narratives; Biography; United States. Marine Corps. Mortuary Affairs; Iraq War, 2003-
Description: A memoir from a soldier who volunteered to serve with the Marines' first declared Mortuary Attachment in Iraq's Al Anbar province in 2004, which was responsible for doing "what had to be done but that no one wanted to know about": they "processed" the bodies of U.S. and other soldiers killed in combat, so that they could be identified and returned to their families.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.To Iraq; title: 2.Mortuary Affairs; title: 3.Camp TQ; title: 4.Processing; title: 5.Pressure; title: 6.Convoys; title: 7.Stigma; title: 8.Pushed; title: 9.Fire and Rain; title: 10.Processing Iraqis; title: 11.Toll; title: 12.Immorality Plays; title: 13.Personal Effects; title: 14.Four Marines in the News; title: 15.Mothers, Sisters, Daughters; title: 16.Boom; title: 17.Heads; title: 18.The Girls's Generation; title: 19.Life and Death; title: 20.Anticipation; title: 21.Home; title: 22.Miguel; title: 23.Searching; title: 24.St. Louis; title: 25.Seattle; title: 26.A Break; title: 27.Tucson; title: 28.Nightmare; title: 29.Chautauqua; title: 30.Hope.